Water treatment and material preparation

Whether it is bent screens, flat screens or screen drums for beet washing, ANDRITZ supplies durable compo-nents for beet cleaning. The beets are washed gently due to the burr-free, outwardly conically shaped  screen opening.

Benefits:

• Durable and low maintenance
• The lowest possible damage to the beet
• High separation performance due the maximum open area

Lime-milk drums are used in sugar production for the cleaning of coarse elements from the lime milk. Due to its stable construction combined with a large open area, ANDRITZ recommends the use of wedge wire screen drums.

Benefits:

• Large open area
• Easy to clean
• Long lifetime

Vacuum filters are used to remove unwanted  contaminants (fibres, sand) from the juice. 
Vacuum filters are offered with different perforations in both stainless steel and copper. 

Benefits:

• Inexpensive filtration solution
• Very effective process
• Tailored to your process

Wedge wire screen drums can be used both for washing the beets, and for the filtration and separation of solid and liquid components in other areas. ANDRITZ supplies wedge wire screen drums for processes with flows from inside to out as well as from outside to in.

Benefits:

• Low blockage tendency
• For filtration of fibres from 100µm and up
• Low maintenance
• Wide range of profile wire geometries and materials
• High slot width accuracy for the best process results

ANDRITZ also supplies many other filtration elements such as whitener screens and backwash filters.  Whitener screens are used to remove the brownish colour of cane sugar, backwash filters are used for water treatment. Both filtration components can be produced as a drilled variant with or without multilayered mesh, or as a wedge wire screen filter. 

Benefits:

• The smallest screen openings possible (from 10µm)
• The most diverse, process-adapted screen configurations possible
• Also available as wedge wire screen solution

Find more information and the complete portfolio in our brochure!